WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate confirmed billionaire investor Scott Bessent on Monday to serve as President Donald Trump's ...

President Donald Trump filled a key role in his cabinet Monday when the Senate confirmed Scott Bessent, a Wall Street veteran ...

The U.S. Senate voted on Monday to confirm Scott Bessent as secretary of the Treasury. The final vote was 68-29.

With the national debt above $36 trillion, newly-confirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowed to rein in government ...

Congressional GOP leaders are in a massive pickle as they weigh how to deal with a looming deadline to raise the debt ceiling ...

The US Treasury said it’s expanding its use of special accounting measures to avert breaching the federal debt limit, which kicked back in earlier this month.

The government exceeded its borrowing limit on Trump's second day in office, leaving the new government with an uncertain ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's parting gift to Pres.-elect Donald Trump announced debt limit reached his first full day back in office.

In one of her last acts as Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen said her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from ...

(CNN) — The nation will hit its roughly $36 trillion debt limit on Tuesday, when the Treasury Department will start taking ...